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Fashions for December 1815.

Get ready for some more fashion history! After reblogging several of Mimi Matthews’s pieces on clothing history of the 19th century, such as gowns of the 1820s and 1880s, the All Things Georgian blog has done a wonderful show-and-tell on the fashions of a specific year, 1815. Since I’m doing “everything 1810s” as a result of my Second Decade podcast, I thought this was a perfect complement to some things I’ve been working on. Check out the full blog and especially its amazing pictures!

The December 1815 issue of Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics featured a design for an evening dress and a walking dress, both the cre…